You Can't Build a Better Baccarat Player

By Carl Van Eton

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I was recently telling a friend of mine about the benefits of the Casino Players Club including the educational component that is built into it.  This particular friend is a skilled entrepreneur who is incredibly analytical when it comes to building a business. However, when it comes to the casinos, as I soon found out, he was anything but.  After listening to me tell him about the free educational videos on our website and our resident blackjack school, he looked up at me with furrowed brow. 

There's No Such thing as a FREE Lunch

By Carl Van Eton

While it doesn't hurt to deposit $5,000 or so in the cage and draw marker after marker, contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be a high-roller to get comped. Getting your fair share of complimentary services (rooms, food, show tickets, front row seats, limos) is not reserved exclusively for black action ($100) players. Green and even red action is sufficient to get you some of the goodies if you know how to work the pit boss. (That's right, kiddies, just like the difference between a tinhorn and a professional card player, there are indeed more than a few tricks to milking the pit for comps.)

Tricks of the Trade

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Comped players, like blondes, invariably have more fun. However, unless you are prepared to sit at a table for hours on end grinding out those quarter ($25) bets until the cows come home, don't be surprised if the pit boss looks down his bulbous nose at you after accessing your rating only to inform you that "Your play does not warrant" that dinner for two, or those fight tickets you had your heart set on. Depending on which part of the country you frequent, comp policies vary from town to town and even from casino to casino.